Quotes About Heaven

Love—that was what a man wanted; needed; simply had to have. Kind love. Sweet, smiling, gracious love. In one's house like sunshine, filling it with light; in one's garden like roses, filling it with fragrance. Ah, how he could imagine it! How well he could imagine it, the sort of heaven there would be about a man all day—and all night too, if, by the blessing of God, one happened to have married Love.

every day spent here would be a day that made her better, that would bring her nearer to that heaven in which all good and simple souls dwelt while still on earth, the heaven of a serene and quiet mind. Always she had longed to be good, and to help and befriend those who had the same longing but in whom it had been partially crushed by want of opportunity and want of peace.

The difference between heaven and earth is not so much altitude but attitude." These words, from the book The Power of Unconditional Love by Ken Keys, Jr., form the overarching sentiment for everything I believe about raising a child with autism, and they come from a man who lived that difference every day.

There has many a man gone through that gate without a safe-conduct, who will reach heaven ahead of some who were escorted through with absolution and ceremony, and had their affairs in order. Kings and princes of the church may find shepherds and serfs preferred before them, and some who claim they have done great good may have to give place to poor wretches who have done wrong and acknowledge it, and have tried to make amends." Brother Mark sat listening

There has many a man gone through that gate without a safe-conduct, who will reach heaven ahead of some who were escorted through with absolution and ceremony, and had their affairs in order. Kings and princes of the church may find shepherds and serfs preferred before them, and some who claim they have done great good may have to give place to poor wretches who have done wrong and acknowledge it, and have tried to make amends.

Though one were strong as seven, He too with death shall dwell, Nor wake with wings in heaven, Nor weep for pains in hell;

Ah, had I not taken my life up and given All that life gives and the years let go, The wind and honey, the balm and leaven, The dreams reared high and the hopes brought low? Come life, come death, not a word be said; Should I lose you living, and vex you dead? I never shall tell you on earth; and in heaven, If I cry to you then, will you hear or know?

If we could live without suffering, we'd find no peace in heaven.

His eyes went again to the crucifix above his head, reflected in the mirror. The strained arms, the arched spine. All that effort to open the gates of heaven for us and we (he thought) probably spend our first hours among the heavenly hosts settling old scores with relatives.

no turning back each drop is a snap decision a suicide from the tower-block of heaven

True love is a preview of heaven, and you do what you got to, to get it.

How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living.

I must bear it well as I may. As my sainted mother used to say, we never come to the kingdom of Heaven but by troubles.

At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us.

Por estas palavras: "O céu e a Terra não passarão sem que tudo esteja cumprido até o último iota", quis dizer Jesus ser necessário que a lei de Deus tivesse cumprimento integral, isto é, fosse praticada na Terra inteira, em toda a sua pureza, com todas as suas ampliações e consequências. Efetivamente,

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

The event of the incarnation of soul in flesh most intimately concerned the entire evolutionary destiny of both the citizenry of heaven and the denizens of earth.

Jesus is going to return one day and take his bride, all believers, to a new heaven and earth. We will be in the very presence of Jesus, the one who saved us and walks with us. Take hope in that fact.

I imagine Heaven would have very nice weather - perfect climate where you can wear a leather jacket or shorts and a sweater.

If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again.

When you get to Heaven, God points you to the all-Entenmann's craft service and says, 'You can eat all you want, and you don't gain any weight.'

Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.

Beyond the Catholic exclusionary paradigm is a larger one which is the Christian one. Christians claim that if you don't believe in Christ, you can't get to heaven. Well that eliminates two thirds of the world's population!